TO V. A. KARPINSKY

Written:Written on January 19, 1917Published:First published in 1929 inLenin Miscellany XI.

      Sent from Zurich to Geneva.

      Printed from the original.Source:Lenin
	  Collected Works,

      Progress Publishers,1971,

      Moscow,Volume 36,

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DearFriend,

Ienclose a resolution. Please read it and pass it on to
Guilbeaux and to the German group.

Thisresolution (it was votedhereby a meeting of the
Left)[1]must be got through all possible organisations;
and, if it is adopted even by asmall partyorganisation, it
should be sentofficiallyboth to the local party committee
and to the Central Executive (Geschäftsleitung der
sozialistischen Partei. Zürich. Volkshaus), with a demand that it be
published.

Iam terribly angry with Guilbeaux—tell him this—forfailing to returnto me the draft statement against
Grimm[2](has he shown it to you? He must!).

Ifhe doesn’t want to sign it, let him send it backat once.

Bestregards,Yours,Lenin

[1]Areference to the resolution of the Left-wingers against the
postponement of the congress and for its convocation in the spring
of 1917. The text of the resolution in German with Lenin’s
corrections is now at the Archives of the Institute of Marxism–
Leninism of the Central Committee of the C.P.S.U. The resolution served
as a basis for the referendum which was held when local
organisations came out in favour of calling the congress in the spring
(VolksrechtNo. 19, January 23, 1917, “Das Referendum gegen
den Parteivorstandsbeschluss ergriffen” (The Referendum against
the Executive Decision Is On).

[2]Areference to the draft statement adopted on January 15, 1917
at a meeting of the Swiss Left-wing Social-Democrats demanding
Grimm’s expulsion from the I.S.C.